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...states with limits are trying to repeal them or, at least, lengthen how long they can serve--and never mind that voters enacted limits by more than 65% in most states or that support remains high. Oregon was one of the first states to adopt limits, in 1992, but after shuffling through five house speakers in five sessions, the legislature just approved a ballot referendum to repeal limits...
...colleagues at Cybertronics Manufacturing. "I propose that we build a robot who can love...a robot that dreams." Hurrah and alas, his dream is realized. Two years later, Cybertronics has assembled the perfect child, "always loving, never ill, never changing," and has found a potentially ideal couple to adopt him--or try him out. But we know the danger of answered prayers. Real life is messy; love can break your heart. Even the heart of a "toy boy" like David, who will be abandoned by the one he loves most and have to face a brutal world before...
...Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography' by Peter J. Conn Pearl Buck was a very interesting writer. I read "The Good Earth," like everybody else did probably in high school, but there are a lot of things about her that I didn't know. For instance, she started an adoption agency called the Welcome House, which was one of the first agencies that allowed Americans to adopt interracial children from all over the world...
...Some counties have even decided to adopt their own earned income tax credit in addition to the national tax credit, instead of implementing a living wage...
...decision not to adopt a living wage had nothing to do with potential cost, she says, but instead with an ideological disagreement about the merits and implications of a wage floor...